English-Italian translations for ambition

• ambizione
  "Il saggio si libera dall'ambizione grazie all'ambizione stessa”. 'A wise man cures ambition with ambition itself'.
  Noi condividiamo questa ambizione e la sosteniamo. We share this ambition and support it.
  Permettetemi di cominciare dall’ambizione, o dalla mancanza di ambizione. Allow me to start with ambition, or the lack of it.

Definition of ambition

• Eager or inordinate desire for some object that confers distinction, as preferment, honor, superiority, political power, or literary fame; desire to distinguish one's self from other people
• An object of an ardent desire
• A desire, as in , for another person to achieve these things
• The act of going about to solicit or obtain an office, or any other object of desire; canvassing
• To seek after ambitiously or eagerly; to covet

Examples

• My son, John, wants to be a firefighter very much. He has a lot of ambition
• My ambition is to own a helicopter
• Pausanias, ambitioning the sovereignty of Greece, bargains with Xerxes for his daughter in marriage. — Trumbull

Related words

• ambitionless
• ambitionlessness
• inordinate ambition